Religion: To the Lower Regions

Anathema. Anathema. Anathema. To Vladimir Lenin and to all other
persecutors of the Christian church, who have raised their hands
against the servants of God, who desecrated holy places and destroyed
God's temples and tortured believers.

With these words, chanted by its priests in parish churches throughout
the world, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia* has just imposed
the ultimate ecclesiastical penalty on the father of the Russian
Revolution. More than 50 years after the bloody revolt that he led,
Lenin was thus excommunicated from the faith in which he was baptized,
and...